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Of course, one of the important subjects, - if you talk about operating aircraft in remote, and sparsely settled areas, i.e., in the ‘bush’, - should be a topic of the aircraft itself. As I keep writing this collective notes, which, I hope, one day will make up a core to the ‘Comparative analysis of bush operation on both sides of Arctic’, I feel a need to talk in more detail about the planes employed for this kind of job, on both - North American, and Russian side, respectively. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the motives that inspired me to begin posting a series covering the topic of “Bush Flying in Russia” was simply the fact that I’m being often asked “whether there’s any kind of ‘bush flying‘ existing nowadays in Russia”. Although in almost any instances I positively affirm the mere ‘fact of existence’, - strictly speaking, and, depending on definitions that would be fixed upon some ‘essential elements of subject matter’ -  the answer could be ‘Yes’, and/or ‘No’ Read the rest of this entry »

Just look at that, - it is a moment of real day-to-day life, an episode of very authentic ‘bush operation’ in Siberia! A guy, who posted this image on a Russian aviation forum called ‘aviaforum.ru’,  said the crew of technicians are changing the landing gear on this An-2. Read the rest of this entry »

 So, here’s an ‘excerpt’ from ‘Arctic Chapter’ of Greg’s ‘Antarctica Files’, as it written by Greg himself. See also a previous post with some sort of ‘preface’ to it.

I went through my log books to get more detail on where those photos were taken,  but I didn’t keep much detailed information, I don’t know exactly where all the photos were taken for example, but made a pretty good guess.

  Photo 1. Taken in the central Arctic on a  flight from Resolute Bay to Inuvik. I surprised at this polar bear.. Read the rest of this entry »

If they asked me to find a proper image to convey the most essential  idea of the ‘Bush Flying - Siberian Style“, I would undoubtedly choose this picture (by Misha). Because ‘a flying helicopter’ is a very common sight everywhere in Siberia, - “the bigger machine, the better”. They do everything, and it looks as if they’ve been there forever. Siberia - it is the ‘Mil-country’.

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